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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You bleeding hearts can't see the forest for the trees here.

[b]Nobody's attacking the first DCI graduates on this thread. [/b]What concerns parents like me is that the strongest 4th grade students at our feeder, and most of the other feeders apparently, are mostly jumping ship before 6th grade at DCI.  The arrangement just doesn't bode well for the development of the International Baccalaureate Diploma program there.  Why can't DCI send graduates to elite colleges, starting next year?  They can't because they haven't been aiming high from the get go (come on, no real academic tracking in middle school).

In a nutshell, it sucks when you've been knocking yourself out to ensure that your kid's language skills are decent for 6 or 7 years, only to find that your only good middle school option in the DC public system for math, ELA, social studies etc. is probably BASIS.  That program doesn't even teach foreign languages before 7th grade, and then only at the beginning level.

DCI admins are letting us down, period. [/quote]

There are several posts here that are doing just that, calling them "weak graduating cohorts" etc. and diminishing their accomplishments.  It comes off as just really petty and mean-spirited, and doesn't really engender sympathy to your cause (native speaker lotteries).[/quote]

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